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BARROW-IN-FURNESS has a rich
heritage and a proud tradition for World Leading
Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering
Excellence. The sector has a significant
concentration in the Furness Peninsula.
Investment proposals from major international
blue-chip companies are set to create 3,000
jobs in the Barrow and Ulverston area. Between
2015 and 2022, in the wider Cumbria area, huge
investments collectively worth circa £45 billion,
including £6.6bn of new infrastructure will
commence. Over the next seven years around
£1bn of investment will be made in advanced
manufacturing companies in the Furness area
of Cumbria; £300m plus investment in new
buildings, processes and infrastructure for delivery
of the Successor programme by BAE Submarine
Solutions in Barrow and £350m in a new bio
pharmaceutical plant by Glaxo Smith Kline in
Ulverston are the most significant investments.
These are complemented by investments in
Siemens, Centrica and other companies.
Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm is
currently in the development phase with
offshore construction expected to commence in
2016. Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm
is located in the Irish Sea approximately 19km
from the Walney Island coast.
The Project is 100% owned by DONG Energy
Walney Extension (UK) Ltd and situated next
to the existing Walney Offshore Wind Farm.
The extension will comprise of up to 90 turbines
and have a total capacity of up to 660MW.
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In addition to the direct jobs, it is estimated that
up to £2.2 million of Gross Value Added will be
generated in the regional economy each year.
The wind farm is expected to be the world’s
largest offshore installed capacity when
inaugurated in 2019. Up to 90 turbines of 7MW
to 8MW each will be deployed. A 7MW turbine
at a height of 190m is 32m taller than the
Blackpool Tower and a 8MW turbine at a height
of 222m is 64m taller than the Blackpool Tower.
DONG Energy has committed to putting in
place a discretionary Community Benefit Fund to
support the local communities and make a long
lasting contribution to the area surrounding the
Offshore Wind Farm.
In June 2015 National Grid selected a corridor
running overland around the coast of Cumbria
and under Morecambe Bay for connecting new
sources of electricity generation into ‘the grid’.
The route heads south from Moorside to the
Furness peninsula where it goes under Morecambe
Bay to emerge at Middleton substation near
Heysham, in Lancashire. The connection will link
new sources of electricity including the proposed
new nuclear power station at Moorside into ‘the
grid’ in Cumbria and Lancashire.
The main construction phase is expected to
be from 2016 to 2019 and could create over
200 new jobs in the North West or 500 jobs
throughout the UK. It is estimated that
during the operation and maintenance phase
around 200 new full time jobs regionally,
and over 350 across the UK, will be created.
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